The Air Force has signed a deal with Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. for software services that could be worth $500 million over six years, Microsoft officials said today.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. won a $4.2 million contract renewal from the city of Orange, Calif., to continue managing the city's IT operations and offer it an array of IT services.
Electronic Data Systems Corp. has won a one-year, $6.5 million subcontract from Sytel Corp. to provide IT infrastructure support services to the Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
The Montgomery County, Md., Office of Procurement plans to release a request for proposals in early January for a seat management contract. The current contract with L-3 Communications Inc. of New York expires in August. Seat management refers to outsourcing of desktop computers and related software, hardware, maintenance and help-desk support.
Newcomers to the public sector inevitably ask: "What should my company do to be successful?" I usually respond by asking where the company has had success in the private sector. That's because government policy favors "commercial" products and services over those that are unique to the government.
The federal government has long imposed unique ethical responsibilities on its contractors. Following the defense procurement scandals of the 1980s such as Operation Ill Wind, Congress considerably increased the number and types of ethical considerations governing federal contracts.
As officials at BAE Systems North America Inc. saw the federal landscape change, they decided to make some aggressive moves. Government agencies were contracting out more of their information technology needs, but they were bundling projects into fewer large contracts.
The Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center wants help developing advanced armament and energetics technology and with systems engineering and manufacturing processes to support its industrial base.
BAE Systems North America Inc., Rockville, Md., won two new Navy contracts totaling $26.4 million to provide engineering, configuration and acquisition support services for Navy and foreign military sales of Aegis-class ships.
BB&T Capital Markets of Richmond, Va., will acquire investment bank Windsor Group LLC and affiliate Windsor Advisory Services LLC, the company announced this month. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Senforce Technologies Inc. has signed a four-year, departmentwide license with the Justice Department for its Enterprise Mobile Security Manager software.
SI International Inc. has won a $11.4 million contract for logistics support at the Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The Seabrook, Md., company will provide a complete range of services related to the agency's major systems modernization initiatives, the company announced today.
Search and categorization software provider Convera Corp. was awarded about $800,000 by the CIA's venture capital fund to expedite the development of distributed indexing capability.
Software company Avilar Technologies Inc. won a four-year, $6.6 million contract to deliver a competency-based e-learning platform in Mexico and Latin America.
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $30 million contract from the Army Program Executive Office Aviation to build test beds for new technologies for the Comanche helicopter.
A joint venture formed by two large defense contractors has won a $66.2 million contract from the Army to supply spare parts for its Firefinder weapon-locating radars.
Within the next week, the Government Accountability Office will add another chapter to the ongoing drama of the Housing and Urban Development Department's IT Services buy when it rules on the second protest filed by the losing vendor.
